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Pakistan Security Brief

Pakistan continues NATO blockade for 17th day; CIA withdraws from Shamsi Airbase, Pakistani defense directive: U.S. drones in Pakistani airspace will be shot down; CFR releases Preventative Action report for 2012; Deputy TTP commander announces peace talks in Bajaur agency; TTP spokesman, Gilani, and Malik all deny earlier claim of peace talks; U.S. doubts LeJ splinter group responsible for Ashura attacks in Afghanistan; Key ambassadors recalled to Pakistan for Monday meeting; PPP in favor of South Punjab province; Pakistan Tehrik-e-Istaqlal unites with PTI, Khan receptive to working with U.S. on “all issues”; Zardari to remain in Dubai another two weeks, says Gilani; Memogate Supreme Court hearing to begin December 19; High Commissioner to the UK to appear before the Abbottabad Commission; National Assembly to be briefed on human rights violations in Parachinar; Former DG of ISI recalls North Korean bribe attempt; Man killed in bombing near Karachi University.

On Thursday, the Council on Foreign Relations Center for Preventative Action released its 2012 “Preventative Priorities Survey” which listed Pakistan as a direct threat to the “U.S. homeland” for its potential to ignite a “U.S.-Pakistan military confrontation, triggered by a terror attack or U.S. counterterror operations,” and for its “severe internal instability…[that could be] triggered by a civil-military crisis or terror attacks.”[3]